Portuguese film festival starts Wednesday in New York

The 15th edition of the Portuguese short film festival organized by the Arte Institute features nine films and begins on Wednesday at the Lincoln Center in New York, it was announced today.

Founded in 2011 by Portuguese programmer Ana Ventura Miranda, the Arte Institute promotes several cultural initiatives in the United States, including the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival, a traveling festival dedicated to Portuguese short films.

For this edition, nine fiction, documentary and animation films were chosen, produced by Portuguese directors in Portugal and abroad.

Among them are “Before the Moon Rises”, a story by Mário Patrocínio about a family of three women trying to survive in a world with water shortages, and “Âncora”, by Helder Faria, a film between documentary and fiction about two women, one Ukrainian and one Portuguese, who meet on a trip to the Food Bank.

There are also three animated short films, with “T-Zero”, by Vicente Niró, with echoes about tourism and gentrification, “A cada dia que passa”, a stop-motion fable by Emanuel Nevado in the mountainous interior of Portugal, and “Crescer à Força”, a cathartic conversation between three friends and co-signed by Artur Correia, Felipe Kenji and Sofia Almeida.

“Growing Up” was co-produced by Universidade Lusófona, similar to “O Sorteio”, a film by Lourenço Barjona and Lucas Torres set in a dystopian future with a lack of resources, where a monthly draw takes place to choose 15 million people to die.

“Primeiro Encontro”, a romantic comedy by Luís Filipe Borges, “Valsa na Lua”, by Francisco de Assis, about the dramas of a young adult, and “A Estrutura Imóvel”, by Juliana Julieta, filmed during a protest in New York criticizing transphobic feminists, complete this year's festival program.

In a statement, the Arte Institute recalls that this festival dedicated to Portuguese short films has an itinerant nature, promoting the “best works of a new generation of young Portuguese directors”, within the United States and other countries.

In the United States, in addition to New York, the festival will pass through New Bedford, San Francisco, Sausalito, Berkeley, Providence, Rhode Island, San Diego and Fall River.

Germany, Hungary, Australia, Croatia, China, France, India, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor and Cape Verde are other countries where these films will be shown.

The Arte Institute is an independent, non-profit organization based in New York that “promotes the production and dissemination of Portuguese contemporary art artists and projects, through events it produces on all continents”.

The 15th edition of the Portuguese short film festival organized by the Arte Institute features nine films and begins on Wednesday at the Lincoln Center in New York, it was announced today.

Founded in 2011 by Portuguese programmer Ana Ventura Miranda, the Arte Institute promotes several cultural initiatives in the United States, including the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival, a traveling festival dedicated to Portuguese short films.

For this edition, nine fiction, documentary and animation films were chosen, produced by Portuguese directors in Portugal and abroad.

Among them are “Before the Moon Rises”, a story by Mário Patrocínio about a family of three women trying to survive in a world with water shortages, and “Âncora”, by Helder Faria, a film between documentary and fiction about two women, one Ukrainian and one Portuguese, who meet on a trip to the Food Bank.

There are also three animated short films, with “T-Zero”, by Vicente Niró, with echoes about tourism and gentrification, “A cada dia que passa”, a stop-motion fable by Emanuel Nevado in the mountainous interior of Portugal, and “Crescer à Força”, a cathartic conversation between three friends and co-signed by Artur Correia, Felipe Kenji and Sofia Almeida.

“Growing Up” was co-produced by Universidade Lusófona, similar to “O Sorteio”, a film by Lourenço Barjona and Lucas Torres set in a dystopian future with a lack of resources, where a monthly draw takes place to choose 15 million people to die.

“Primeiro Encontro”, a romantic comedy by Luís Filipe Borges, “Valsa na Lua”, by Francisco de Assis, about the dramas of a young adult, and “A Estrutura Imóvel”, by Juliana Julieta, filmed during a protest in New York criticizing transphobic feminists, complete this year's festival program.

In a statement, the Arte Institute recalls that this festival dedicated to Portuguese short films has an itinerant nature, promoting the “best works of a new generation of young Portuguese directors”, within the United States and other countries.

In the United States, in addition to New York, the festival will pass through New Bedford, San Francisco, Sausalito, Berkeley, Providence, Rhode Island, San Diego and Fall River.

Germany, Hungary, Australia, Croatia, China, France, India, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor and Cape Verde are other countries where these films will be shown.

The Arte Institute is an independent, non-profit organization based in New York that “promotes the production and dissemination of Portuguese contemporary art artists and projects, through events it produces on all continents”.

The 15th edition of the Portuguese short film festival organized by the Arte Institute features nine films and begins on Wednesday at the Lincoln Center in New York, it was announced today.

Founded in 2011 by Portuguese programmer Ana Ventura Miranda, the Arte Institute promotes several cultural initiatives in the United States, including the NY Portuguese Short Film Festival, a traveling festival dedicated to Portuguese short films.

For this edition, nine fiction, documentary and animation films were chosen, produced by Portuguese directors in Portugal and abroad.

Among them are “Before the Moon Rises”, a story by Mário Patrocínio about a family of three women trying to survive in a world with water shortages, and “Âncora”, by Helder Faria, a film between documentary and fiction about two women, one Ukrainian and one Portuguese, who meet on a trip to the Food Bank.

There are also three animated short films, with “T-Zero”, by Vicente Niró, with echoes about tourism and gentrification, “A cada dia que passa”, a stop-motion fable by Emanuel Nevado in the mountainous interior of Portugal, and “Crescer à Força”, a cathartic conversation between three friends and co-signed by Artur Correia, Felipe Kenji and Sofia Almeida.

“Growing Up” was co-produced by Universidade Lusófona, similar to “O Sorteio”, a film by Lourenço Barjona and Lucas Torres set in a dystopian future with a lack of resources, where a monthly draw takes place to choose 15 million people to die.

“Primeiro Encontro”, a romantic comedy by Luís Filipe Borges, “Valsa na Lua”, by Francisco de Assis, about the dramas of a young adult, and “A Estrutura Imóvel”, by Juliana Julieta, filmed during a protest in New York criticizing transphobic feminists, complete this year's festival program.

In a statement, the Arte Institute recalls that this festival dedicated to Portuguese short films has an itinerant nature, promoting the “best works of a new generation of young Portuguese directors”, within the United States and other countries.

In the United States, in addition to New York, the festival will pass through New Bedford, San Francisco, Sausalito, Berkeley, Providence, Rhode Island, San Diego and Fall River.

Germany, Hungary, Australia, Croatia, China, France, India, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor and Cape Verde are other countries where these films will be shown.

The Arte Institute is an independent, non-profit organization based in New York that “promotes the production and dissemination of Portuguese contemporary art artists and projects, through events it produces on all continents”.